Re-union (Poem)

Since that drear day that took you from my sight.And left me in a world grown strange and cold,One anchoring thought has made my spirit bold,One star has shed its ray across my night.

’Tis this—that how so e'er I miss the lightOf your dear smile, the pressure of your hand,Each hour but brings me nearer to that landWhere sundered lives once more shall re-unite.

O dawn no earth-born clouds can ever mar,O Spring more fair than those of time can be,O Vision set impregnable, afar,By night and day I journey on to thee;And when at length I reach that hour supreme,How trivial will appear life’s tangled dream.